Apparel-belt.



Patented Apr. 24, |900.

No.. 648,267.v

M. KOCH. APPAREL BELT. (Application irled Feb. 3, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

MONROE KOCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, TO S. KOCH da SONS AND MAX .KAEMPFEIL OF SAME PLACE.

APPAREL-BLT;

SPECIFICATION foaming part of Letters Patent No. 648,267, dated April 24, 1900.

riginal application filed December 14, 1899, Serial No. 740,366. Divided and this application filed February 3, IQO. Serial l No. 3,831. (No model.)

To @ZZ wwm t may concern:

Be it known that I, MONROEKOH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Belts, of which the following is a specification.

The improvement applies to all forms of belts, cravats, and the like which encircle the Io waist, neck, or limb and which require to be drawn together and to present a tasty appearance. I will describe it as applied to serve as a bodice-belt, giving a good portion of the effect ofl a bodice while, in fact, only a belt with stiening additions and with my provisions for applying the principle of the pulley to effect the drawing of the ends together to properly tighten the belt. I have discovered that simple rings of hard rubber can be atzo tached, so as to present no objectionable features and will serve with ribbons to give the effect of pulleys, and that the frictional quality of the rubber contributes to the success of the device by holding the ribbon to prevent its slipping back during the various changes A of movement in the acts of tightening and tying.

In what I esteem the most complete form of the invention a wide ribbon having its ends 3o narrowed by gathering serves as Vthe main body of the belt, having longitudinal springs or stiifening-stays extending from each end a considerable distance inward toward the midlength and a series of short vertical springs introduced at the back, such being first inserted in a pad and the pad yafterward permanently attached to form a part of the belt.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the in- 4o vention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a view of the inner face of the main body extended. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view showing a modification, and Fig. 3 is a corresponding view showing another modi- Iication.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures where they 5o appear.

.the waist.

Referring to Fig. l', A a wide ribbon of fine rich material, as liberty satin or taifeta, of a length nearly suificient to extend around Each end is narrowed by being sewe'd to a ring B of a less diameter than the 55 breadth of the ribbon, forming a series of more or less regular longitudinal gathers extending from the ends inwardly toward the, center.

C C are stays,ordinary fiat springs, of Whalebone or analogous material, as feather-bone, 6o covered, as usual, and secured on the inner face of the belt by stitching through the edges of the covering. In the iigure there are two such longitudinal stays in each end extending longitudinally inward from each end nearly to the center. There might be three, or one alone in each end may serve well. These longitudinal springs are omitted near the mid-length of the belt.

D is a thin pad of fabric stitched in posi- 7o tion on the inner face of the belt at the midlength and containing a series of short springs or stays E. I have in my experiments worked successfully with the ribbon A four inches wide, the pad D three inches wide in the center, narrowed toward each end, and four inches long, carrying seven upright springs E, the longest in the center, the length of the others diminishing toward each end.

Extension strips or ribbons G of double- 8o faced satin say one and a quarter inches in width and of a convenient length serve as the strings, each being strongly sewed on the inner face of the belt near its junction with the ring B. To apply it for use around the waist, the narrow ribbons are reeved each through the opposite ring, the ribbon G attached to one end of the belt being led through the ring carried on the opposite end of the belt, the same disposition being made of the 9o narrow ribbon at the other end, each leading across the space between the ends of the main body or belt proper, A, and being extended through the ring at the opposite end and folded so as to extend in the reverse direction.

I have not deemed -it necessary to show the knot by which the narrow ribbons G are tied together, as it will not involve any difficulties. Each ribbon Gr may be reeved through both rings-that is to say, it may extend from Ioo its point of attachment to the wide belt iirst across the opening to the ring B on the other end of the wide ribbon A, thence through that ring, and thence back to and through the ring B on the end from which it started, and after being reeved through that ring it may extend forward ready to be tied to the other narrow ribbon. The invention can be used in that tioned-will give only double effect; but dou` 14, 1899, Serial No. 740,366, on which Letters Patent of theUnited States No. 644,557 werev springs and withoutthe pad D.

, will serve well.

manner, audits use in that way will give still greater pulley-like effect; but it is not usually necessary to thus lead or reeve it throughble efect is sufficient for most wearers. The friction of the rubber or other frictional surface in the rings is of advantage g but other surfaces, and especially the precious metals nicely iinishednay serve.

I have usedl successfully` circular rings B of five-eighths of an inch and others of halfan inch internal diameter. Rings of other forms n than circular may be used if desired in any case.

Modiications may be made Without departing'from the principle or sacrificing. the advantages of the invention. Cheaper fabrics may be employed. l

Parts of the invention may be used without the whole. I can use the springs extending upright without associating them in a pad. I can dispense with one or with both of the two longitudinal springs O in each end of the main body.

Fig. 2 shows the belt without longitudinal springs, but retaining the pad D and the vertical springs E, proportioned as in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the belt without longitudinal In this modification two springs E* extend up and down in the main body near the mid-length sewed directly to the body. Either of these forms When the extension-strips are reeved through the rings and tied to hold the belt in place, the eect is thereby given of contin nations of the belt between the rings.

In my concurrent application of December granted to me on February 27, 1900, and of which the present application is a division, I have claimed a belt composed of a body portion of suitable iexible material-such, for example, as ribbon-transverse stays per- 1 With the widthsl of the wide and narrow ribbons above given Vof the middle line of the group to determine the gradual taper of the belt from the back toward the front, longitudinal stays disposed on opposite sides of said transverse stays, rings at the opposite ends of the'said body portion, the said rings being of a diameter less than the width of the said body portion, at its middle, .and means for connecting the rings to hold the belt in place.

Iclaim as my invention- 1. The herein-described belt, composed of a body portion of suitable flexible material, such as ribbon, with its ends narrowed, means for holding said body portion laterally kdistended at itsmid-length, rings of a diameter less than the width of said body portion at its mid-length placed at the ends of the body portion, and extension-strips also of suitable flexible material, such as ribbon, whereby, when said strips are reeved through the rings and tied to hold the belt in place, the effect is given of continuations of the belt between said rings, all substantially as herein set forth. y

2. As an articleof manufacture, a belt, the body of which is of suitable flexible material, such, for example, as ribbon, a group of stays permanently fixed in the beltr for -holding the back of the belt distended laterally, the stays being gradually shortened in length upon opposite sides of the central stay at the back, to determine the gradual taper of the belt from the back toward the front, rings at the opposite ends of the body of the belt, the said rings being,r of such size vas to diminish the width of the belt fastened thereon, and means for connecting the rings to hold the belt in place, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MONROE KOCH.

Witnesses: SAML. B. GooDALE,

THOMAS DREW STETsoN.

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